Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri stressed on Sunday the importance that Egypt attaches to hosting next year’s session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), as part of Egypt’s pioneering and aspiration to coordinate and strengthen international efforts to confront the phenomenon of climate change.
This came during a meeting FM Shoukri held yesterday with the visiting UK Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly yesterday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Hafez said.
During the meeting, Shoukri welcomed the developments in bilateral relations between Egypt and Britain in recent times, especially with the entry into force of the partnership agreement between the two countries at the beginning of this year as well as the measures adopted to ease travel restrictions between the two countries in an effort to boost the flow of tourism and investment between the two sides.
The two top officials discussed ways to advance bilateral relations between Egypt and the United Kingdom as well as regional and international issues of common concern.
Minister Shoukri expressed Egypt’s support for the efforts made by the United Kingdom to successfully host the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Summit of Heads of State and Government, both of which are scheduled to convene in Glasgow next month.
Egypt, FM Shoukri noted during the meeting, is looking forward to seeing the conference’s conclusions contributing to the advancement of the agenda for confronting climate change, including support for developing countries so that they can fulfill their commitments in accordance with the objectives of the Paris agreement.
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